Fine, hope every one of you would be delightful enough in the new independent year (for India). Let me convey my warmest and heartiest new independent year greetings exclusively to YOU.
At the dawn of the second half of this millennium decade, I would like to speak out some words to you all who came across - in one way accidentally, in another way by chance of time which necessitated people like us to often meet at the premises of some development organisations.
We, as social workers and development professionals, put our micro efforts for restructuring the present and structuring a future. In an agrarian society like India, exctreme poverty, illetaracy and high growth of population are the root cause of underdevelopment. Right now, the solution cannot be sought that easily.
Though sudden change cannot be expected, yet steady change is crystal clear in the tender years of the millennium. For, we know people keep changing according to trends. Many changes have taken over within the last ten years of life style. The most oppressed sections of the population aim to achieve equality in the society by smashing the obstacles of caste, economy and all other discriminations in many parts of the country. It is wish thousand times more than them. But still they keep moving to achieve their goals.
In many crucial situation of our career path, we – educated ones – struggle to make a choice. But somehow manage to come out with one that is fulfilling. We struggle in spite of our well-learnt lessons through arduous experiences. Even the various freedoms we possess such as the freedom of thought and speech do not help us in the right moment of our situations to carry forward the goal of a new future.
Various ngos have developed strategies to address the root causes of the problems of underdevelopment, which have shown communities various alternatives. However, the success of their intervention has been limited due to several reasons – the biggest obstacle among them being the apathy of the State to address the issues due to lack of political will. In association with these facts, ideology, sociology and practices have been unfortunately allowed to be dictated by the media. In the process of making money today, media has been butchering the future generation.
One possible way of re-structuring the present scenario in a positive way is to make the people believe in to themselves and working for a better tomorrow, rather than losing everything on the current world order. It is not very ironical when I say that we have to play our own role for alternating for what it has to give the people from what it should be giving the future?
I strongly believe the development mission of today is at a loss of values by the ever exploiting ngos. There is a gap of many generation from the time of rise of nations and national freedom movement which was made possible by the World War II. This gap needs to be filled. We should create awareness; We should install rights; We shall unite to cheer the hearts.
To this end, I call you by your thought, word and deed for the quest for justice, the involvement in the struggles of the poor and the exploited towards liberation, the sense of solidarity, process oriented outlook, plurality, eco-sensitivity, feminine contribution to the millennium era.....
More importantly I seek sharing of your thought, word and deed on this mission. Because, the generation will have to weep not for the evil deeds of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people as rightly said by Martin Luther Kind.Please talk your experiences, put your precious effort to evolve a Future Think Force and get together today at www.dawnway.blogspot.com
Look forward to receiving your word.
Yours sincerely,
Nilavarasu Kannan
(Tamilnadu, India)
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